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by cobbzilla 18d ago
It can be both. Highways didn’t get built for poor folks, but did get built right through many of their neighborhoods.
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Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue different species(spacedaily.com)
9 points by cobbzilla 19d ago|0 comments
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by cobbzilla 20d ago
TIL: bardcore is a music genre. Thank you.
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by cobbzilla 21d ago
The cookies are the reward Frog is OpenAI staff Toad is the rogue agent you can find the full story with a search for “frog and toad cookies story pdf”
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by cobbzilla 21d ago
To finish your excellent analogy, adapted for today: And Frog didn’t even bother to tie up the box or put it on a high shelf! The moment Frog’s back was turned, Toad opened the box and ate the cookies. Frog feigned surprise.
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by cobbzilla 22d ago
In today’s world one hopes there is at least a manslaughter charge, if not murder. Mistaken identity, shooting the wrong person by “accident”, does not excuse a murderous intent & mens rea.
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by cobbzilla 22d ago
Random off topic trivia This building is at Market & New Montgomery, and was built in 1907, and has an award-winning elevator. For some years I worked on the same block, at the corner of Market & 2nd St. That building (605 Market) w
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by cobbzilla 24d ago
> Raw figures sure, for an upper bound. how many of those 340M people are actually employable? how many are children? how many are retired? permanently unable to work? subtract those out, it’s a better upper bound but still a swag then a
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by cobbzilla 24d ago
a thorough Fisking, nicely done danluu the analogy to Ehrlich was strikingly apt
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by cobbzilla 25d ago
Because I’m lazy. It has HTTP basic auth. If anyone wants access they can message me directly.
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by cobbzilla 25d ago
It was even worse in the 90s/00s - on Windows, the IE browser icon was literally labeled “The Internet” iirc there was a story in The Onion about someone who “accidentally deleted The Internet” on their Windows system and the whole Int
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by cobbzilla 25d ago
If you must insist on squaring the circle: Pluto is the Princeps of Kuiper Belt Objects, the First Among Equals. It is the most honored KBO, even if it is not a planet.
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by cobbzilla 26d ago
It was fine and dandy until Eris came along. Eris is bigger than Pluto, so if Pluto’s a planet then so is Eris. So you have 10 planets. And then how many other Erises are still hiding? How many planets do we have then? It must be some very
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by cobbzilla 27d ago
I ended public access to my git server after I got flooded by bots and my own commits were noticeably lagging. That’s not an option for the kernel. It’s hard to read the cat-and-mouse account with any hope today. I think the flood abates so
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
IDN is a security flaw masquerading as a standard.
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
It’s hard to overthrow actual free markets. Small business is too sympathetic. But if you pass enough well-meaning regulations and strangle all the small businesses with good intentions, it’s much easier to overthrow a crony-capitalist olig
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
This is really creative and clever, nicely done! The “Inception” graphic was hilarious and made me wonder if perhaps the site itself is served by some SELF binary (is it?? that would be insane)
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
> But unfortunately there's no way to directly use the devicePixelRatio value you can read from Javascript directly in a CSS calculation to be able to get a precise scaling on any arbitrary pixel density. The indirect way is for the
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
> the world of Internet advertising just doesn't run like that at this point It has always worked this way: 1. if you can sell the ads yourself, you get better rates and better, relevant advertisers. 2. if you can’t sell ads yoursel
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
> The last time we attributed liability to non-human things was the deodand of the Middle Ages. I can think of a couple of counter examples: Civil asset forfeiture: your property is charged with the crime, you have to petition the govern
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
iirc they had a light bulb named TEST. like, I want a real bulb not a test one.
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
I dunno, trust is a good foundation, and then you need some good ole fashioned checks and balances, required transparency & record-keeping. I sense that the checks-and-balances & record-keeping around mass-force-push SMS in the US a
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
Sending thoughts of hope. I am reminded of what Fred Rogers would say in times like these. Fred Rogers often told this story about when he was a boy and would see scary things on the news: "My mother would say to me, 'Look f
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
No you were not lied to. and thank you for heeding the good advice to not be a jerk. Whether you see it or not, the vast majority of people /are/ generally good, and more importantly they want to be around other people who value b
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
I wonder if people who live in DC think the same about their federal tax dollars, it’s roughly the same flavor of “local”
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
But have they identified the trebuchet that killed him? We can rule out Warwolf [1] my favorite trebuchet, which never killed anyone. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
Oil CEOs are well intentioned. A different kind of well, but, oh well.
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
I wrote some JavaScript and paste it in my console to automate this when I left Google Photos. The “data avarice” is astounding.
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
As someone similarly frustrated by these UI shenanigans, I’m impressed with how well thought-through your idea is. It sounds reasonable! Probably not that hard to implement either. Could it be a mere vibe-coding session away from existence?
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by cobbzilla 1mo ago
Devil's advocate, the worst-case scenario is really bad, and would probably be common: A random button your pointer is unintentionally hovering on stays put while the rest of the page wildly formats around it, super-janky UX.

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